Marilyn Treacy, senior vice president of sales and marketing at ACS, said: “These AC contracts will enable our customers to meet mercury regulations in the US Midwest and Western Canada. As a result of these contracts, ACS intends to utilize trans-loading facilities in those regions to better serve these customers by providing local product storage and deliveries.”
ACS is currently building the AC production line in North America. The plant, which is under contruction in Coushatta, Louisiana, is designed to produce 150 million pounds of AC per year. The plant is expected to start up at half capacity in April 2010. Earlier in the month, the US Department of Energy (DOE) had approved a conditional loan guarantee of $245m which will be used to help finance the plant.
ACS currently supplies AC to US power companies from its own 60 million pound per year processing facility located in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
